Douglas Crockford: remove the "not evil" clause from your license because it is evil itself
Douglas Crockford: remove the "not evil" clause from your license because it is evil itself
The Issue
Many free software activists are also active for good causes in other areas than software. The non-evil clause costs them time and nerves and distracts them from doing good.
Douglas Crockford uses the MIT free software license with the additional clause:
"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
This clause makes his software effectively non-free because there is no universally accepted definition of good and evil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil
More details: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
Please explain to Crockford, why his reasoning for the license is wrong.
The Issue
Many free software activists are also active for good causes in other areas than software. The non-evil clause costs them time and nerves and distracts them from doing good.
Douglas Crockford uses the MIT free software license with the additional clause:
"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
This clause makes his software effectively non-free because there is no universally accepted definition of good and evil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil
More details: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
Please explain to Crockford, why his reasoning for the license is wrong.
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Petition created on October 6, 2013